Creatures

Famous quotes containing the word creatures:

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings:
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“What happiness did poor Mother’s studies bring her? It is the melancholy tendency of such studies to separate people from their friends and neighbors and fellow creatures in whom alone lies one’s happiness.”
—Mary Potter Playne (c. 1850–?)